How crime and punishment are defined and managed is central to our shared sense of humanity. And both accountability and fairness are at the heart of our concerns. Although the distinctiveness of the Scots’ relationship to crime and its punishment is well documented the aim of the present study is to analyse it as an aspect of Scottishness. In this modest contribution to research, political decisions, historical facts and cultural metaphors are reviewed from the archetypal character of Mary, Queen of Scots, to vibrant Tartan Noir, thanks to Laidlaw and his peers.

This biography presents the dramatic personal and professional life of Alfred Golliard (1881-1944). Prefect of Jura (1934-1940), a radical dismissed by Vichy, he was an important member of the Cluny Resistance, deported and put to death by gas.

This volume of articles questiones the drafting process of paratexts, which are exclusively observed in this book, and in a pathbreaking way about the writers manuscripts, which are in the heart of the auctorial self-representation. The study of archives opens up as well an exclusive field of study, that researchers hadn't still explored, that of the « editorial genetic ».

Marion Coste explains the work intitled Votre Faust, through the story of repetitions and representations on the staging of Aliénor Dauchez. She proposed to read the work as a learning of collaboration and of sharing.

This book offers an extensive overview of contemporary perspectives about philosophy through the classic question of time. It allowed us to clear understanding how joung researchers and also the more experienced one, renew these philosophical questions.

This book addresses language practices and shows that social transformations happen through language. It also offers concrete methods for the analysis of stylistic, interlocutive and discursive practices.

With which difficulties there runs up the exercise of the illuminated assent and of the autonomy of the sick recruit who takes part in the choice of his treatment? These questions are studied here by specialists, jurists, doctors, philosophers and psychologists

This book addresses the relationship of care from a multidisciplinary perspective in the Human Sciences. It considers the functioning of words in context in a wide variety of spheres and offers testimonials from professionals.